Obsidian Butterfly
Had I not stolen that book, I most likely would not have been a writer.
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weedy seadragons
“everything, even gain, / is some kind of loss. even after.”
antihero
“in a single breath / fought off an evil corporate polluter / without somuchas a lawyer”
Swimming Lesson
“the familiar games you invented: / complicated, one-foot races across // the shallow end.”
Deadlines: February & March 2025
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.
Interview with Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Winner of the 2024 Rising Poet Prize
Winner of the 2024 Rising Poet Prize Akhim Yuseff Cabey for “Olentangy River, 2019” Akhim Yuseff Cabey was …
Inheritance
By Odin Meadows
“Light from the / dining room is spilling out the hole, I keep forgetting / it’s right above the dinner table.”
Olentangy River, 2019
“god bless, then, the poisonous / carp these fishermen toss // back into the river,”